Queen Elizabeth.
Edward Spencer Beesly (1831-1915)
Category
Books
Date
1892
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215783
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1],243,[3]; 44 p. : geneal. tables ; 19cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown sheep on yellow cloth. Maroon leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. [As issued?]
Makers and roles
Edward Spencer Beesly (1831-1915)